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Introducing Automated Text Recognition

Wiley Digital Archives is the only archival program in the library market offering Automated Text Recognition (ATR), an AI that turns handwriting into typeset. ATR makes the unique handwritten documents in our archives easy to discover, explore, and analyze with our platform digital humanities tools.

  • The Bijouga or Bissagos Islands, W. Africa. Edward Stallibrass, Journal Manuscripts, n.d. Source: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

    Before ATR

    This manuscript page can only be found via top-level metadata.

    The text isn’t searchable.

    It can only be analyzed by reading it – which script makes taxing.

  • Typeset version post ATR. Original document on http://WDAgo.com/s/c465db04

    After ATR

    This page has been converted into typeset.

    All of the text is searchable.

    It can be analyzed with textual analysis tools.

Explore seven centuries of manuscripts

Thanks to ATR, a breakthrough machine learning feature, hundreds of thousands of  handwritten records covering seven centuries of History of Science can now be seamlessly searched within, utilized for data analysis, quoted, and referred to in citations.

  • Improves returns

    ATR has been applied to all WDA archives at no extra cost, enhancing the archives you’re planning to acquire, as well as of those that you acquired in the past, automatically increasing ROI even post sale.

  • Supports institutional objectives

    Powered by ATR, WDA helps put researchers in your institution ahead of the curve.

Technology to explore history

Built for research,
teaching and learning

Wiley Digital Archives delivers archival content on an advanced platform purposely designed to power research, support teaching, and foster learning.

The platform is user-friendly, packed with intuitive tools and functionalities to power discovery, analysis, on- and off-platform collaboration, and virtual education.

Users can conduct searches of textual and visual content by word, term, format and date across archives and disciplines. All results are sorted by content type in easy-to-navigate visual galleries.

Datasets and content can be easily downloaded, manipulated and shared by individual users or collaborative teams of researchers and students, with most text translatable into 105 different languages.

Wiley Digital Archive - a platform built for research

Tools to power research, support teaching, and foster learning

The platform is embedded with the most advanced set of digital humanities tools, designed to maximize the value researchers, educators and students derive from primary source content. Functionalities include:

  • Analytics

    Textual analysis tools for concordance, collocation, popularity, relationships and frequency distribution of terms across archives, disciplines and timelines.

  • Geo-tagging

    Geo-tagged maps, even those drawn by hand, can be overlaid with current coordinates and downloaded as geotiff files to use within GIS software suites.

What people are saying

  • “I used the typeset transcripts feature, as some of the handwriting was difficult to read. Thanks to the on-screen citations tab, I could keep an ongoing bibliography for my notes.”

    Ann-Marie Richardson

    PhD Candidate AHRC North West Consortium Funded Researcher with The Royal Society

    Lancaster University

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